036 - Titus Gebel: Medieval City-States

Timothy Allen talks with Titus Gebel. I’m back this week with Titus Gebel for another conversation and the subject of our discussion this time is Medieval City-States. Titus is of course very knowledgable about governance models from this time in history and we spend our time exploring the rise and fall of free imperial city models and what it might have been like to live within such a system as well as discussing what, if any, lessons we may be able to learn from these historical Free Cities in oder to apply them to their modern day incarnations. Enjoy the conversation. LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIME CONFERENCE Prague, 14-15 October, 2023 https://libertyinourlifetime.org/ TIMESTAMPS: 00:30 - Intro and welcome. 03:38 - Life in a medieval city-state. 09:30 - How did the empire benefit from the city-state? 15:02 - The role of merchants in city-states. 22:53 - What were markets like in the Middle Ages? 25:35 - Innovation and business in the middle ages. 30:47 - Rules of the city. 36:22 - Private property rights in city-states. 42:36 - The decline of the medieval city-states. 49:24 - What we can learn from the city of Venice? 57:15 - What can we learn about the optimum size of a Free City? TWITTER: Titus Gebel: ⁠https://twitter.com/titusgebel⁠ Timothy Allen: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/MrTimothyAllen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Free Cities Foundation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/freecitiesfound⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ OTHER LINKS: Tipolis: ⁠https://tipolis.com/⁠ Free Cities Foundation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://free-cities.org/⁠